Eavan Murray

I miss the wordsmith. Durkan had a sharp eye for detail that’s missing in our politics today. He wasn’t a natural leader, but post-GFA nationalism needs more people with his mastery of the fine print & awareness of its import.

Turnout in #GalwayWest is low which will work best for Sean Kyne. But predictions are it will be a bloodbath tomorrow

A woman who ‘identified’ as a man was raped after being transferred to an all-male psych ward. This is the horror of gender self-ID. The NHS has put trans lunacy above keeping patients safe, says Georgina Mumford buff.ly/8y313Ve

This is about what has been happening at the WellBN gender clinic in Brighton. The story was first exposed by @hannahsbee in the New Statesman here newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

Never forget, never forget an American VP @JDVance took time out from his country being at 𝐰𝐚𝐫 to fly over the Atlantic trying to stop Hungarians breaking free from the EU's most corrupt government Just a few scenes of the absolute joy and freedom yesterday in Budapest👇

@bindelj That’s perverse.

First time I interviewed the hideous Barry Drewitt-Barlow, in 2010, he told me he commands the "surrogates" having "his" children to have C-sections, because he found it "repulsive" to think of the babies coming out of a vagina.

"Jim McDowell’s funeral took place at the weekend and, while his death is above all an immense loss to his family, I am not at all sure if journalism in particular and life in general is ever going to be quite the same again. "McDowell – the unmistakable voice at the other end of a telephone line only ever used the surname to identify himself, so I will do the same – was a giant of the newspaper industry, as the warm tributes to him have confirmed." Read Noel Doran: tinyurl.com/2s3hzk8v

We need to ask an uncomfortable question: Why do some female students in University College Dublin @ucddublin feel there is a culture of fear around speaking about sex-based rights? Lets look back at how we got here, spoiler alert, senior government politician involved...

@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @rustyrockets Scumbag

"It's difficult to make that claim when you have to acknowledge that your actions caused distress." Russell Brand addresses the public reaction to his admission that he had sex with a 16-year-old girl when he was 30. 📺youtu.be/kv5tXkmEMyo @piersmorgan | @rustyrockets

Hat tip to the redoubtable police historian Jim Herlihy for this one. This is the 1926 Irish census form for Canadian prime minister @MarkJCarney's great grandparents Patrick and Bridget Carney from Aughagower, Co Mayo. At that time Mark Carney's grandfather Robert, who was one of the first gardaí, had already emigrated to Canada to take up a position in Vancouver. He eventually joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In the right hand side of the census Patrick Carney writes the word three for the number of children he and his wife have had as only two are listed in the census.

Kathy Burke! Love her. A really honest, hard won wisdom there #TommyTiernan

Important to remember the contribution that former Assistant Commissioner John O’Driscoll played as part of the efforts to arrest Daniel Kinahan. His outreach work with the UAE authorities has led to this day, May he rest in peace

@MaireNiM1 I always found him alright. Definitely very committed from what I saw but this was so bizarre. I’m trying to listen back to it. Maybe he misspoke 😋

@EavanMurray He has form. Has a clear agenda as we havd seen in the Mid West. Through the years has only once interacted with hospital campaigners , that was an acknowledgement. Yet is front and centre at all #HSE & #UHL promotion events.

He is a dope O’Donovan’s comments on media coverage of fuel protest ‘sinister and deeply disturbing’, NUJ says irishtimes.com/politics/2026/…

@g7zkmss5gs @john_mcguirk Have you read any of the coverage?

@EavanMurray @john_mcguirk The media reap what they sow. When they accept and get funded by the government, yous lose all credibility as yous are no longer independent. They must toe the line as yous are bought and paid for. He who pays the piper calls the tune .

@pebblesmeller ? Who do you think I meant?

@EavanMurray Not as "sinister and disturbing" as a Communications Minister threatening a state broadcaster.

Considerably calmer at Galway docks now. Crowd has thinned out. Everyone is wet, cold and tired

Public order unit have entered Galway docks. Protestors have now blocked their path to the blockade with a truck #fuelprotests

A crowd of hundreds have broken through a Garda cordon at the entrance to Galway Docks